Curated list of resources on testing distributed systems
Andrey Satarin has curated a comprehensive list of resources focused on testing distributed systems. The collection includes research papers and studies that analyze various bugs and testing approaches in popular distributed systems. It aims to provide valuable insights for those interested in improving the reliability and performance of distributed systems.
- ▪The curated list includes studies on bugs in systems like Hadoop, Cassandra, and ZooKeeper.
- ▪Research highlights the importance of simple testing to prevent critical failures in distributed data-intensive systems.
- ▪The collection features papers on fault tolerance and the impact of hardware issues on distributed systems.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/asatarin/testing-distributed-systems |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 06:51:01 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T07:04:56.123Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T07:04:56.123Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -AACjeUtS9iE |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
List of resources on testing distributed systems curated by Andrey Satarin. If you are interested in my other stuff, check out public talks. For any questions or suggestions you can reach out to me on Twitter, Bluesky @asatarin.bsky.social or other platforms. {% comment %} Private notes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xHt_PK9yGMTP6JNDMydQLF4SHIdlq-BF9IZeTOXtIOg/edit {% endcomment %} Table of Contents A Markdown unordered list which will be replaced with the ToC {:toc} Overview of Testing Approaches Research Papers Bugs What Bugs Live in the Cloud? A Study of 3000+ Issues in Cloud Systems— study of actual bugs in different popular distributed systems (Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, ZooKeeper and Flume) TaxDC: A Taxonomy of Non-Deterministic Concurrency Bugs in Datacenter…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.